Your Olympic questions answered: How is surfing scored?

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Thanks again to everyone who has submitted their burning questions about the Summer Olympics. Remember, no question is too big, too small or too weird! Send them to thebuzzer@cbc.ca and I'll continue to answer the best ones as the Paris Games approach.

Today's question comes from Steve in British Columbia, who asks: How is Olympic surfing judged and scored?

This is a timely one because the World Surfing Games (the sport's equivalent of the world championships) just wrapped up over the weekend in Puerto Rico. The big news for Canada was Erin Brooks' failure to qualify for the Olympics. The 16-year-old rising star looked like a medal contender after winning gold at the 2022 world junior championships and silver at last year's World Surfing Games, and she got her Canadian citizenship just in time for this summer's Paris Games. But she won't be going after fumbling away her final chance to qualify.

With Brooks out, 18-year-old Sanoa Dempfle-Olin is set to become Canada's first Olympic surfer. The native of Tofino, B.C., (the country's surfing capital) got in with her silver-medal performance at last year's Pan Am Games in Chile before tying for 13th last week in Puerto Rico. No Canadians qualified for surfing's Olympic debut in 2021.

Though Dempfle-Olin will be going to the Paris Games, she'll actually be far from Paris. Really, really far. The Olympic surfing events are taking place some 15,000km away in Tahiti, the French Polynesian island located in the middle of the South Pacific.

OK, back to Steve's question. Each of the two Olympic surfing events (men's and women's